Online Newsletter AMERICAN WINE SOCIETY a non-profit corporation Chapter Chair Becky Wilson deanwils@carr.org Secretary Barry Brunett Treasurer John Landon February 1, 2003 Hello, Our January meeting was a wonderful experience, as well as a great fundraiser. Walt and Pat treated us to a great array of ports. Along with the ports, Pat donated two huge bottles of wine that she had originally acquired through the silent auction for the Educational Foundation. Let's see, then she donated them to raise more money for the foundation, then paid to sample her donated wine. I'd say that’s above and beyond. Then there were the ports. The first five ports on the list below were the ones we tasted in the formal portion of the tasting. The others were opened afterwards. All were donated from Walt's cellar and of the ones I sampled, they were just wonderful. This was, without a doubt, the most well enjoyed and well-received port tasting since I have been a member of our group. We owe Walt Rachele and Pat Valas a big "Thank You" for making this effort to fund the Ham Mowbray Scholarship. A "Thank You" to the Browns as well - they donated their bread and cheese allowance. So, with 32 people attending we raised enough money to establish our first full scholarship fund, and are on our way to a second. Vineyard Vintage Retail Price A Estancia- Cab Sauv 1980 80.00 B Dry Creek- Cab Sauv 1992 120.00 1 Rozes over 40 year Tawny NA 85.00 2 Taylor Fladgate 20 Year Old Tawny NA 49.99 3 Barros Colheita 1977 50.00 4 Hutcheson Vintage 1991 25.00 5 Taylor Fladgate LBV 1994 21.99 6 Quinta do Infantado Estate Tawny NV 13.99 7 KWV Full Tawny NV 7.49 8 Rozes 20 Year Tawny NV 25.29 9 Messina Hof Ports of Call- TX NV 18.75 10 Messina Hof Papa Paulo-Reserve 1998 29.66 11 WillowGlen Premium Tawny NV 7.99 12 Porto Morgando Ruby NV 9.99 13 Quinta do Cotto Vinho Tinto 1998 11.99 The February tasting will be held at Florence and Bob Kersey's. Please be sure to call them early, as the number of attendees will be limited due to seating concerns. I will be wine hosting for my first time (so please be kind). I have cellared three vintage beaujolais for a year. We will be comparing them to the newer, just-released vintage bottlings. We still need house and wine hosts for June and a house host for August. As it's on the schedule right now, the June tasting is on Father's Day. We will leave it to the house host to go with that date or move it to one of the adjacent Sundays. The only additional business on deck for this month is dues: If you have not paid your dues for this year, please do so. Or, get in touch with John or myself to let us know your intentions so we can clean up the mailing list. Please check the dates, there have been some changes to previous schedules: A reminder: The newsletters are all available online at our website (below). We send notification via email only to those who wish to receive it. If you are not receiving email notification, it's probably because we do not have your email address, so send email to the address above, requesting addition to the list. Similarly, if you do not wish to receive email notices, send us a message stating so. We don't divulge email addresses without permission, and distribute only brief messages announcing the newsletter, or timely issues we deem important - we hate junk email too, you know. The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations. French proverb
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